16-year-old Achimota student was killed by gunshot - Family

Tragedy hit the Asigbetse family when their daughter died from a gunshot allegedly fired by her colleague from Achimota Senior High School.

Lilian Dzigbordi Asigbetse went to visit her alleged boyfriend Gerald Anamang at Tema Community 8 on Wednesday together with her best friend (name withheld) after the former took money to buy a banker’s draft at Ecobank to pay for her school fees but did not return home.

Contrary to claims by Gerald’s family suggesting that the girl was hit by a stray firecracker that resulted in her death, post mortem analysis of the body revealed that she died from severe gunshot wounds.

“..Two doctors spoke to me. They said that they had tried and tried, the worked really hard to save her life but unfortunately they couldn’t save her. And so I started asking questions about what happened, so they invited the surgeon to join us….. They explained that when they opened her up, more than half of her kidneys had been damaged, her bowels had been damaged, the lungs had totally collapsed, the spleen had been damaged and the diaphragm as well had been affected,” Mr. Donkor said.

“They brought a plastic container that had some fragments that looked like metal pellets and a metal string and said that is what they found in her. There was a hole on her side, it was only one hole, they didn’t see another hole elsewhere,” he continued.

According to the deceased uncle, Alfred Donkor, Gerald’s mother called for an ambulance when she returned from work to rush Lilian to the hospital but she died after a number of surgeries.

“We are told that when it happened the boy phoned the parents I don’t know whether the mother or the father they phoned; the mother told me that she was at work and then she had to rush home to get an ambulance…. I find it difficult to believe the story because the neighbours would have arranged for the girl to be taken to the hospital; they wouldn’t wait for the mother to come from work. People don’t do that when somebody is dying, I’ve never heard of that in Ghana, people even get a taxi and they take the person to the hospital, he fumed.

The case is still under investigation and the Asigbetse family has promised to pursue the case till justice is served.

Geralds’ family did not speak to GhanaWeb when they were approached to speak on the matter.